In today’s entry there is just one new addition to the ontology. The events modelled are as follows:

• Samuel works at the Navy Office.
• Samuel and Henry Moore visit a coffee house (that is not named) and discuss the recent storms and the damage caused. I have not modelled the subject of this discussion for the time being.
• At some point during the day, Samuel reads a statement written by Charles Sackville regarding the murder that he is accused of. To model this, I have introduced a new association type “text-subject”, and modelled Charles Sackville’s statement (which is published) as a text, and the murder as the text subject.
• Samuel dines at home.
• The Hunts visit the Pepys.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office again.
• Samuel has supper at home.

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Two more entries posted today. The entry for 23rd February 1662 is quite short with only two events:

• Samuel reads more of Fuller’s ‘A History of the worthies of England’.
• William Penn sups with Samuel at his home.

The entry for 24th February 1662 models the following events:

• Samuel takes a music lesson from John Birchensha.
• Samuel pays 5l. for the lessons he has had in the last month. This is modelled as the new ‘payment’ event described in this post.
• Samuel visits Mr Savill to ‘set again for my picture in little’ – I’m not sure if this means that Sam is sitting for a miniature to be painted or if it is related to the financing of the original portraits. For now I have simply modelled this as a visit.
• Samuel visits John Birchensha at his home in Soutwark. Where the pair discuss and play more music.
• Samuel dines at home.
• Samuel chastises Will Hewer before his wife. To model this, I have created one participation association for Samuel chastising Will and a separate one for Elizabeth playing the role of ‘audience’.

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Two more entries posted today, both of which introduce new items to the ontology.
The entry for 21st February records the fact that Sam receives 80l. from Jaspar Trice. This is modelled as a “payment” event, with Samuel playing the role of recipient and Jaspar Trice playing the role of “payer”. The sum paid is recorded as an occurrence of type “value” (previously used to record the value of items) on the payment event topic itself. So we have:

[event-16620221-04 : payment = "Samuel receives a payment from Jasper Trice (21st February 1662)";"16620221-04"]
occurs(event-16620221-04 : event, event-16620221-03 : during)
participation(event-16620221-04 : event,
samuel-pepys : recipient,
jasper-trice : payer)
{event-16620221-04, value, [[80l.]]}

In the entry for 22nd February 1662 we learn that a group of five men have been sent to Newgate Prison for the murder of a tanner in Stoke Newington. The murder itself is modelled as a new event of type “murder”, with the alleged murderers playing the role “accused”, the tanner playing the role “victim” and the place “Stoke Newington” playing the role “scene”. A more generalised event type of “crime” has also been created and both the new “murder” event type and the existing “theft” event type have been made subclasses of it.

[event-16620222-11 : murder = "Murder of a tanner in Newington";"16620222-11"]
occurs(event-16620222-11 : event, event-16620222-10 : end)
participation(event-16620222-11 : event,
thomas-wentworth : accused,
john-belasyse : accused,
henry-belasyse : accused,
edward-sackville : accused,
charles-sackville : accused,
unamed-tanner : victim,
newington : scene)

The gaoling of the five men is recorded as a separate event of type “imprisonment” with the murder event playing the role “charge” (meaning that the charge on which the men are imprisoned is for the crime described by the murder event); the men play the role “imprisoned” and “Newgate Prison” plays the role “gaol”.

[event-16620222-10 : imprisonment = "Imprisonment of the Sackvilles, Belasyses and Thomas Wentworth on a charge of murder (22nd February 1662)";"16620222-10"]
occurs(event-16620222-10 : event, today : end)
participation(event-16620222-10 : event,
thomas-wentworth : imprisoned,
john-belasyse : imprisoned,
henry-belasyse : imprisoned,
edward-sackville : imprisoned,
charles-sackville : imprisoned,
newgate : gaol,
event-16620222-11 : charge)

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Three more entries posted today. No major ontology changes or new entities added.

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Another big batch update covering the period from 5th February 1662 to 17th February 1662.

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Events modelled in 3rd February 1662:

• Samuel practices his music at home. This is modelled as a recreation event with Samuel Pepys playing the generic role “participant”.
• Pepys, Penn and Batten work at the Navy Office.
• A dinner at the Batten’s home attended by Samuel, Mrs Mills and Mrs Shipman. Although others may have been present, only the named attendees are modelled.
• Mrs Shipman drinks a toast, that Samuel estimates to be a pint and a half of wine, to the health of the Battens. It would seem that binge-drinking is not a new British disease…
• Pepys, Batten and George Carteret return to the Navy Office to do more work.
• Pepys returns to the William Batten’s. This is modelled as a visiting event.
• Samuel and Elizabeth (amongst others – thought the others are not named and so are not modelled) sup with Robert Holmes. We are told that Holmes’ lodgings are at Trinity House and so this additional fact is also modelled.
• Samuel and Elizabeth return home.

Events for 4th February 1662:

• Samuel visits Westminster Hall. We know no more about what he did there.
• Samuel dines with Benjamin Templer and Sir John Crew at Crew’s residence.
• A subpoena is served on Sameul by an unamed person on behalf of Edward Field.
• Samuel works at the Navy Office…
• …and then returns home.

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Events recorded in the topic map for 1st February 1662 are:

• Samuel and Commissioner Pett work together at the Navy Office
• Samuel and William Penn discuss moving Penn’s son to Cambridge…
• …while Commissioner Pett continues working
• At some point during this time, William Penn tells Samuel that he has received news from Sir Edward Montagu of the destruction of the enemy fleet at Algiers by a storm.
• Pepys and Pett visit Mr. Savill (to admire Pepys’ portraits)
• The pair dine at the Wardrobe with Jemima Montagu
• Samuel passes on the news from Sir Edward to Jemima Montague
• Pepys and Pett return to the Navy office and continue working.
• Samuel returns home and writes letters to his father, to his brother John, and to Dr William Fairbrother. We know from the diary entry that the reason for the latter is to find out about a Mr. Burton at Magdalene college, Cambridge.

This entry shows some interesting event relationships. Penn receives news from Sir Edward Montagu by letter, the subject of this “correspondence-event” is the “Destruction of the enemy fleet at Algiers”. This destruction is itself an event and is then used as the subject role player in an event-subject association for the event representing the correspondence from Montagu to Penn; the event representing the passing of this news from Penn to Pepys; and for the event representing the passing of the news from Pepys to Lady Montagu. Thus we have a single anchor that ties together all of the events allowing the relationship between them to be shown more clearly in the topic map.
Additionally there is a cause-effect relationship between the discussion between Penn and Pepys on the subject of Penn’s son and the letter written by Samuel to Dr. Fairbother on the subject of Hezekiah Burton.
The entry for 2nd February 1662 is more straightforward:

• Pepys attends the morning service at St. Olave
• Samuel and Elizabeth dine at home
• The pair then attend the afternoon service at St. Olaves (given by an ‘Oxford man’ of whom Pepys has a suitably low opinion
• The rest of the day is spent in reading and supper.

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The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.
This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to January 1662. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online,

Two more entries posted today which takes us to the end of January 1662. The entries are both relatively short and do not involve many events. The entry for 30th January 1662 mentions that the day is a fast-day in memory of Charles I. To model this, I have added a new event of type “fast”.

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